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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Texas and Mexico Border News - 12.6.2011

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Ted HoughtonEl Paso Inc.
Meanwhile, the Far Eastside "spaghetti bowl" interchange is rising at the intersection of I-10 and Loop 375, a new entrance to UTEP is under construction, and new lanes are being added to the Border Highway. Another project will build direct connectors ...See all stories on this topic »

The new Cold WarSalon
The excessive militarization of the US-Mexican border would also be a mistake. Ever since the US annexed Texas, California and the Southwest in the Mexican-American War, the smuggling of contraband and human beings has been a profitable trade along la ...See all stories on this topic »

Cowboys Border LogicAgInfo.net
Yet without today's drug cartel it wasn't as dangerous, especially since most illegal were Chinese laborers. Times have change and while politicians debate electric fences, armed guards and drones a five year old mustang named Clyde is finding drugs in ...See all stories on this topic »

Activist Post: NY Times: DEA Launders Mexico Drug Cartel ProfitsBy Activist
American undercover agents, primarily with the DEA, have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds from Mexican drug trafficking organizations as part of their investigations into how the cartels operate, The New York Times ...Activist Post

Video: US approved large escalation of legal gun sales to Mexico...By Ed Morrissey
Remember when gun-control activists insisted that loose purchasing regulation of American firearms had led to a massive uptick in arming the drug cartels in Mexico? Advocates demanded action to curtail gun sales in the US, and the Obama ...Hot Air » Top Picks

Why No One Should Smoke Marijuana « Alan Colmes' LiberalandBy Yashwanth Manjunath
In many instances the drug cartels are better armed and have more soldiers than the Mexican military. According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, 60% of the profits the Mexican drug cartels use to finance their reign of ...Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Report: DEA sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Mexican drug...By ADF Alliance Alert
Report: DEA sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Mexican drug cartels. Fox News Radio 550 KFYI: A new report details how DEA agents allowed hundreds of millions of dollars walk to Mexico in a failed attempt to trace the money to its ...ADF Alliance Alert

Guest ColumnMmegi Online
To many of us the mention of a 'cartel 'transports us to the Box Office realities where we visualise the Colombian, Mexican and other South American drug cartels that infiltrate, paralyse law enforcement through callous and corrupt means imaginable and ...See all stories on this topic »

'Anarchy' guns itTampabay.com
In Tuesday's season finale, as police prepare to bust a high-stakes meeting among the club, Mexican drug cartel members and Irish drug runners, the question hangs: What can possibly come next? Sutter, known for his brutal honesty both on Twitter and ...See all stories on this topic »

Love Letter To Mary JaneSwans
There were cartels in the woods, sometimes using indentured Mexican laborers. The Feds still occasionally swooped, depending on the political temperature, for of course any cultivation at all was illegal by federal law. Raskin traces the decline in his ...See all stories on this topic »

Blogs

12 new results for mexican drug cartels

DEA laundering money for drug cartels? « Hot AirBy Ed Morrissey
The ATF missed the mark by a mile in Operation Fast & Furious, and now the New York Times wonders whether the DEA did the same with its efforts to track money laundering by the same Mexican drug cartels (via Katie Pavlich): Undercover ...Hot Air » Top Picks

Mexican Army Shuts Down Zeta Drug Cartel's Encrypted Mobile ...By Sam GibbsMexican Army Shuts Down Zeta Drug Cartel's Encrypted Mobile Phone Network by Gizmodo UK. After Anonymous had its little on-again, off-again dealings with the Zeta drug cartel, the Mexican army has stepped in to cut the drug lords ...Gizmodo UK

Issa: Holder Justice Department Is Laundering Drug Cartel Cash ...By Jim Hoft
Darrell Issa (R-CA) wanted to make sure you heard about the US agents who have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington's expanding role in Mexico's fight against drug cartels: The New York Times ...The Gateway Pundit

Borderland Beat: Mexico drug war refugees escape to more ...By Ovemex
The Echevarrias are among thousands of Mexicans who make up the internal diaspora trying to escape drug violence that seems to migrate rather than cease, with more than 45000 troops fighting cartels and more than 40000 dead by many ...Borderland Beat

Report: U.S. Agents Laundered and Smuggled Millions in Drug MoneyBy Drover
At the same time federal agencies were involved in the transport and distribution of assault rifles to Mexican drug cartels under project code name Fast and Furious, the U.S. Department of Justice was actively overseeing and involved in the ...The Daily Sheeple

Why Should We Care About Mexico? – CIP AmericasBy Laura Carlsen
From the hype on spill-over violence from the drug war (statistically false), to warnings of a “failed state” (also inaccurate), to statements that Mexican drug cartels not only seek to take over the Mexican government but also infiltrate and ...CIP Americas

iOwnTheWorld.com » Blog Archive » With Enemies Like These, Who ...By Claudia
In the latest U.S.-Mexico Obama Justice Department corruption saga, the New York Times is reporting Drug Enforcement Administration undercover agents have been laundering millions of dollars in Mexican Cartel profits in an effort to “catch ...iOwnTheWorld.com

Mexican women used as Drug Mules! | Narco-Bullit!By Narco-Bullit!
Women are increasingly visible and vulnerable as Mexico's drug gangs break up and grow, not only as “mules” transporting drugs either because they are threatened or want the cash, but also as money launderers, occasional assassins or ...Narco-Bullit!

DEA Agents Launder Mexican Drug Money - The TakeawayBy feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)
Undercover American narcotics agents launched the money laundering operation in order to trace the drug cartels. This is not the first instance of a U.S. governmental agency using illegal means to fight the war against drugs in Mexico. ...The Takeaway: Daily Podcast